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World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up

World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

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The world's rarest -- and most camera shy -- great ape has finally been captured on professional video on a forested mountain in Cameroon, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society and Germany's NDR Naturfilm.





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Tremors between slip events: More evidence of great quake danger to Seattle

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and Vancouver ...


New way to break some of the strongest chemical bonds

New way to break some of the strongest chemical bonds

Chemistry / Materials Science

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Cornell University in the U.S. have found a new way of breaking two of the strongest chemical bonds, at ambient temperature and pressure, and this breakthrough could lead to ...


Michelangelos make smart lovers: New study shows that partners sculpt each other to achieve their ideal selves

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 1hour ago | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Is that really Bob? You've seen him hundreds of mornings for the last 10 years at local coffee shops. Since he started dating Sara, he looks you in the eye -- and smiles. Sara takes every opportunity to let coffee shop cronies ...


Make your pets a part of your New Year's resolutions

Other Sciences / Other

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(PhysOrg.com) -- When drawing up a list of New Year's resolutions, be sure to include your pets, says Lorraine Corriveau, a wellness veterinarian at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine.


Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen

Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen

Space & Earth / Environment

created 22 hours ago | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

There's a storm brewing -- a storm of information, that is, in climate and environmental research. People are wading through the turbulence, trying to make sense of it all.


Helping hands

Helping hands

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In capstone project, mechanical engineering students apply innovative and collaborative skills to create a rehab glove that stroke patients can use at home


CERN Colour X-ray Technology Set to Save Lives

Medicine & Health / Research

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Medical studies are soon to start with the MARS scanner, a revolutionary CT scanner developed by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. The scanner, which incorporates technology developed at the world's ...


For older adults, participating in social service activities can improve brain functions

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Volunteer service, such as tutoring children, can help older adults delay or reverse declining brain function, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Using functional ...


New Bacterial Behavior Discovered

New Bacterial Behavior Discovered

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria dance the electric slide, officially named electrokinesis by the USC geobiologists who discovered the phenomenon.


Climate Wizard makes large databases of climate information visual, accessible

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 9

A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world's most prominent climate-change models is being used to consider such things as habitat shifts that will affect ...



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